Quotes About Stability

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed.

A healthy economy is a foundation for a healthy future.

My mother was very good about giving us a life that was, let's say, as normal as it could be, not a crazy jetting life at all. That's been helpful. It's given me the drive to be someone in the world rather than just sitting around.

Never get too high; never get too low.

I dated the same girl all through high school.

There are going to be highs and lows throughout a career, and you have to try and level it out. Don't get too high and carried away when things are going well, but don't get too low when things aren't happening.

I try to let my highs not be too high and my lows not be too low. And I do that just because I try to control my emotions.

And then peace broke out. It seems surprising, in view of what had been and what would one day follow, but there now began an era of tranquillity between England and Scotland, and consequently along the Border, which was to endure almost uninterrupted for nearly two hundred years.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

In practice the democratic 'revolutionary' type of discipline is more reliable than might be expected.

But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.

If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable.

Having become permanent, the war ceased to be a war.

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little.

It is not easy to become sane.

Men go and come, but the earth abides

There is a most gratifying sense of security to know our investment is growing steadily.

Moreover, stable prices foster saving and capital formation, because when the risk of erosion of asset values resulting from inflation—and the need to guard against such losses—are minimized, households are encouraged to save more and businesses are encouraged to invest more. (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 2009)

MORAL AMBIGUITIES constitute a fairly stable system of equilibrium

There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.

My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I drive home. I'm like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It's made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years.